I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my daily reading. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. You will note that some of the formatting has changed, and that is due to the change in my process. Formatting, and the information presented, is likely to change a bit as I develop my new process.

• Comparing Cloud Compute Services | CloudHarmony
• Birth year and political leanings | FlowingData
• Microsoft Windows 7 support deadline: January 13th, 2015 | BGR
• Dominant Players | xkcd
• Turning recursive file system traversal into Stream | Java Code Geeks
• On Programmers Productivity | Patrick Smacchia
• Polling for stress | Flowing Data
• Transparency – tools and techniques and cultural shift to make it work | Javalobby
• How ACH works: A developer perspective – Part 3 | ZenPayroll Engineering
• TIMESTAMP Columns, Amazon RDS 5.6, and You | Javalobby
• Designing a Data Architecture to Support both Fast and Big Data | Javalobby
• Advanced Reactive Programming with Akka and Scala | Javalobby
• Optimize for readability first | Valentin Simonov
• Writing Tests for Data Access Code – Unit Tests Are Waste | Petri Kainulainen
• Choose Backlog Items that Serve 2 Purposes | Mike Cohn
• Mirror Your Android Screen to the TV with Chromecast | Google Chrome Blog
• The skeptic’s guide to continuous delivery: nuts & bolts of CI | Atlassian Blogs
• Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data – Another Warning About Shared Links | Intralinks CollaboristaBlog
• Requiring Versus Browserifying Angular |Telerik Developer Network
• Why You Need a Strategic Data Service | Jason Kolb
• 10 things you can do to as a developer to make your app secure: #10 Design Security In | Building Real Software
• Auditing infrastructure for your app using Spring AOP, Custom annotations and Reflection | Java Code Geeks

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.